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Mr Sessions was at the time a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is also demanding a special counsel to investigate the Trump administration for ties to Russian Federation, "given AG Sessions' false statements about contacts with Russian Federation". (more...)

Even so, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp Navy has regularly confronted USA warships sailing in global waters off Iran's coast, prompting vows of a tough response from President Donald Trump. Iran had been trying to acquire the system for years to ward off repeated threats by Israel to bomb its nuclear facilities, but Russian Federation had held off delivery in line with United Nations sanctions imposed over the nuclear program. (more...)

The tweet came as one in a series of early morning announcements from the president's Twitter page. Just found out Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. "How low has President Obama gone to tapp [SIC] my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!", Trump tweeted on Saturday. (more...)

President Donald Trump, the Pentagon, and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer have consistently said the intelligence gained from the raid was valuable, and would save American lives. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula remains an extremely unsafe al-Qaida affiliate, and is taking advantage of the chaos in the country from the civil war there, Davis said, noting that the organization "has more American blood on its hands" than the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria does. (more...)

Among those executed were prisoners charged in last year's assault on a Jordanian intelligence agency office in the Baqaa refugee camp that left five dead and in an attack against security forces in the northern city of Irbid that killed one soldier. (more...)

Intelligence agencies in the U.S. have said that at the time Russian Federation was attempting to interfere in the election to help Trump win the presidency. Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn was forced to resign February 13 after it was reported that he had talked to the Russian ambassador the same day that outgoing President Barack Obama was expelling 35 Russian diplomats in retaliation for the election meddling. (more...)

Trump called Schumer "a total hypocrite" and asked that the NY legislator be investigated for his association with the Kremlin. Schumer responded to Trump on Twitter that he would "happily talk" under oath about his contact with "Mr. Sessions has said he didn't mislead Congress as he was answering in the context of discussions related to the Trump campaign. It was posted soon after meeting a group of fourth-graders . (more...)

Ri, who lived in an apartment in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur with his wife and two children, sometimes asked Chong to introduce him to palm oil and sugar traders. Two female suspects have also been arrested in relation to the murder. The victim, who was found with a diplomatic passport bearing the name Kim Chol, died some 15 to 20 minutes after having the lethal nerve agent VX wiped on his face by two women, according to police. (more...)

An additional 20 million more Americans are now covered under Obamacare, and insurance companies are barred from refusing coverage to people due to pre-existing conditions. "What I do know is that Obamacare is one very big tax hike and one enormous regulatory hike", said Kudlow - host of "The Larry Kudlow Show" and author of " JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity ", written with Brian Domitrovic and published by Portfolio. (more...)

With seven other North Korean men believed to be involved in the incident still at large, the release of Ri underscores the difficulty investigators face piecing together the February 13 killing, observers said. Malaysian connections have played a major role in this endeavor until now, but the death of Kim Jong-nam and North Korea's subsequent conduct appear to have convinced the Malaysian government to accelerate its investigation of Glocom. (more...)

Conservatives and Democratic lawmakers were given an accidental early glimpse at what Obamacare's replacement may look like after a draft bill was leaked to the press late last month. "[But] the fundamental question is how to do it in a way that's sustainable and drives down health care costs". But the credits would still be based on age and not income, as they are under the ACA. (more...)

No bystanders reported falling ill. Jong-nam, was at the KL International Airport 2 (klia2) at 8am on Feb 13 to board a flight to Macau when an hour later, two women suddenly appeared before him and wiped his face with the palms of their hands which contained a poisonous liquid. (more...)

Long-simmering tensions boiled over in January when Sinn Fein deputy first minister Martin McGuinness quit, saying he could no longer work with First Minister Arlene Foster from the rival Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). Forty miles away, Sinn Fein's northern leader Michelle O'Neill filled out her ballot paper in St Patrick's primary school in her home village of Clonoe, Co Tyrone. (more...)

Most recently, the Manhattan billionaire also ordered an entry ban against people coming from seven Muslim countries. The document, prepared by DHS' internal intelligence agency, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, concludes that the majority of foreign-born, USA -based violent extremists were radicalized several years after their entry into the U.S. (more...)

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has summoned German Ambassador to Ankara Martin Erdmann, over the cancellation of a meeting between Turkey's justice minister and Turkish citizens in Germany on March 2, according to a ministry source. Germans have been protesting about over the arrest of Deniz Yücel, who was held on charges of propaganda and incitement to hatred. Turkey's efforts to rally support for the referendum suffered another blow Friday when a planned weekend speech in the western German ... (more...)

This means defense spending would account for some 1.3 percent of GDP, the same level as the past few years, Fu said. This week influential state-run tabloid the Global Times called for a rise of at least 10 percent to deal with the uncertainty brought by Trump, and a retired senior general told Hong Kong and Taiwan media that 12 percent would be needed to match the USA rise. (more...)

His remand expires and there is insufficient evidence to charge him", Apandi said. "He has no proper [travel] documents so we will deport him". Huong, the Vietnamese woman, was detained 48 hours after the murder in the same airport terminal where Kim Jong-nam was killed . (more...)

Lancaster County deputies received calls at 11:33 p.m. after people called 911 to say they heard screaming and gunshots, according to a release from the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office. He was survived by his wife and an elementary school-going child. Patel was the proprietor of the Speedee Mart located at 1416 Pageland Highway in Lancaster. (more...)

The emails show Pence communicating with top advisers "on topics ranging from security gates at the governor's residence to the state's response to terror attacks across the globe", according to the Star . In one September 2014 exchange, Pence asked his then-Homeland Security Adviser John Hill for an "update of the investigation in Columbus (Indiana) following the vandalism.to area churches". (more...)

As the number one duty free operator in South Korea - the number one duty free market in the world - Lotte Duty Free recorded total sales worth more than $5.7bn in 2016 from an industry total of $10.6bn (+30.9%) from downtown and airport outlets . (more...)